[Worth] manages at once to relate to a contemporary sensibility - recalling the absurdist distortions of Lisa Yuskavage and John Curri and a prevailing fascination with the language of the comic book - and at the same time to be genuinely old masterly.

as the artist’s choice to adopt the pseudonym “Tom of Finland” in late 1956 suggests, Touko Laaksonen understood that his work expressed an abandon that was not sanctioned by the homophobic, prudent regimes of his time.

Of all the avantgarde artists to emerge in the 1960s, Bruce Nauman is the most deserving of the epithet “counter-cultural.” Be it high or popular culture you are talking about, Mr. Nauman’s emotionally difficult, intellectually forbidding, visually ungenerous art has a masterful ability to alienate.